Other editions of book The Witch Family

Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying "Heh-Heh!" and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away, by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch, until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the girls exile Old Witch there with the warning that she'd better be good - or else no Halloween. For company, they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill, as Amy and Clarissa find out when Old Witch "magics" them into her world, a world of make-believe made real.

This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is “full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor” (Library Journal). Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying “Heh-heh!” and casting abracadabras. But now she has been sent away . . . by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa have decided that Old Witch is just too mean and wicked. So, drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, they exile Old Witch there with a warning: She better be good, or else no Halloween! But to give Old Witch some company, they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby . . . Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill. And Amy and Clarissa are about to find that out, when Old Witch magics them into her world of make-believe-made-real, in “a very special book that is certain to give boundless pleasure—at any time of the year” (The Horn Book). “A classic for Halloween.” —Library Journal

"Go, live on the glass hill forever, and never come back!" Thus did Amy and Clarissa, who loved to draw pictures of witches, banish the wicked Old Witch. Before long there was Little Witch Girl and then Weeny Witch, the baby, on the glass hill as well. Perhaps Old Witch did try to be good, but she never succeeded. And in no time at all, Amy and Clarissa were involved -- sometimes dangerously -- in her schemes and "hurly-burlies." Without Malachi, the magic bumblebee, to guard the girls, things would have turned out very differently. Once when Amy and Clarissa suddenly turned visible by mistake at Little Witch Girl's birthday party, Old Witch ignored the terms of her banishment and only Malachi was able to thwart her. And again, when she saw the rabbits -- her favorite food -- painting Easter eggs in the field below, she forgot everything else, and even Malachi couldn't quite stop her then. But Malachi did defeat Old Witch in a witch spelling bee (witches spell backwards, you know) though nobody -- except Amy -- thought he could. And when Halloween finally came, it was hard to tell who was the more surprised -- the witches or Amy!

Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying Heh-Heh! and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away... by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch...until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the girls exile Old Witch there with the warning that she d better be good-or else no Halloween! For company they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill...as Amy and Clarissa find out when Old Witch magics them into her world, a world of make-believe made real.